Kruger Park Birding | Kruger's Summer Visitors

Of the 500 or so species found in the Park, about half are visitors, with a more or less equal split between breeders and non-breeders.

There are the regular migrants from Europe and Asia and elsewhere in Africa that arrive for the southern African summer. See Migration Routes

Then there are subcontinental vagrants and nomads whose appearance in the Park is sporadic and related to the availibility of food. In winter, there are altitudinal migrants that come down to the lowveld in search of food, and inhabit niches vacated by the departing migrants. There are also some Kruger waterbirds that migrate northwards during winter to the floodplains of the Sahel. In terms of sheer numbers, Red-billed Queleas make up almost 80% of the birds that migrate to Kruger.